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   penal facility
         n 1: an institution where persons are confined for punishment
               and to protect the public [syn: {penal institution}, {penal
               facility}]

English Dictionary: pinwheel flower by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Penelope
n
  1. (Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity; for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them
  2. a genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)
    Synonym(s): Penelope, genus Penelope
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phenolphthalein
n
  1. a laxative used in many preparations under various trade names; also used as an acid-base indicator in titrations involving weak acids and strong bases because it is brilliant red at high alkalinity and colorless below pH 8
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phenylbutazone
n
  1. anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Butazolidin) [syn: phenylbutazone, Butazolidin]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phenylephrine
n
  1. a powerful vasoconstrictor used to dilate the pupils and relieve nasal congestion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phenylpropanolamine
n
  1. an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections; "drugs containing phenylpropanolamine are being recalled"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pine leaf aphid
n
  1. a variety of adelgid [syn: pine leaf aphid, {Pineus pinifoliae}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pineal body
n
  1. a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin
    Synonym(s): pineal gland, pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pinwheel flower
n
  1. tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
    Synonym(s): crape jasmine, crepe jasmine, crepe gardenia, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay, Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose, Tabernaemontana divaricate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pomolobus
n
  1. genus to which the alewife is sometimes assigned [syn: Pomolobus, genus Pomolobus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pomolobus pseudoharengus
n
  1. shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
    Synonym(s): alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Water lemon \Wa"ter lem"on\ (Bot.)
      The edible fruit of two species of passion flower
      ({Passiflora laurifolia}, and {P. maliformis}); -- so called
      in the West Indies.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE.
      swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te,
      OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr,
      s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
      suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to
      sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.]
      1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
            saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
            beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
  
      2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
            sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
  
                     The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
                                                                              --Longfellow.
  
      3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
            sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
            voice; a sweet singer.
  
                     To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
  
      4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
            as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
  
                     Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,
                     and plains.                                       --Milton.
  
      5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
  
      6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
            (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
            (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
                  sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
  
      7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
            winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
  
                     Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
                                                                              --Job xxxviii.
                                                                              31.
  
                     Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
                     established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
  
      Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
               compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
               sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
  
      {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}.
  
      {Sweet apple}. (Bot.)
            (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
            (b) See {Sweet-top}.
  
      {Sweet bay}. (Bot.)
            (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}).
            (b) Swamp sassafras.
  
      {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora}
            ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and
            producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
           
  
      {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of the North American plants of the
                  umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots
                  and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
            (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing
                  in England.
  
      {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet
            flag}, below.
  
      {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum})
            from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
  
      {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}.
  
      {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites
            sagittata}) found in Western North America.
  
      {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
            See the Note under {Corn}.
  
      {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub
            ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having
            sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
           
  
      {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus})
            having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
            aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
            America. See {Calamus}, 2.
  
      {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter
            fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch
            myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}.
  
      {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
  
      {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar
            styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}.
  
      {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
            purposes.
  
      {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
  
      {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}.
  
      {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}.
  
      {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten.
  
      {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
            Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
  
      {Sweet oil}, olive oil.
  
      {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}.
  
      {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}.
  
      {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag.
  
      {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous
            ether}, under {Spirit}.
  
      {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
            moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); --
            called also {sultan flower}.
  
      {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
            sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
  
      {Sweet William}.
            (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many
                  varieties.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also
                  {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale.
  
      {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}.
  
      {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or
            special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
            [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
  
      Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Phenol alcohol} (Chem.), any one of series of derivatives of
            phenol and carbinol which have the properties of both
            combined; thus, saligenin is a phenol alcohol.
  
      {Phenol aldehyde} (Chem.), any one of a series of compounds
            having both phenol and aldehyde properties.
  
      {Phenol phthalein}. See under {Phthalein}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Phthalein \Phthal"e*in\, n. [See {Phthalic}.] (Chem.)
      One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as
      condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and
      well represented by phenol phthale[8b]n. Their alkaline
      solutions are fluorescent.
  
      {Phenol phthalein}, a white or yellowish white crystalline
            substance made from phthalic acid and phenol. Its solution
            in alkalies is brilliant red, but is decolorized by acids,
            and as this reaction is exceedingly delicate it is used as
            an indicator.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pineal \Pi"ne*al\, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus
      of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pin[82]ale.]
      Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
  
      {Pineal gland} (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the
            third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also
            {pineal body}, {epiphysis}, {conarium}. In some animals it
            is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal
            eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant
            of a dorsal median eye.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pupil \Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of
      the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See {Puppet}, and
      cf. {Pupil} a scholar.] (Anat.)
      The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the
      eye. See the Note under {Eye}, and {Iris}.
  
      {Pin-hole pupil} (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so
            contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium
            poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. --Dunglison.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Penelope, TX (town, FIPS 56672)
      Location: 31.85839 N, 96.92908 W
      Population (1990): 210 (102 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 76676

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Pennellville, NY
      Zip code(s): 13132

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Pine Level, NC (town, FIPS 52020)
      Location: 35.51002 N, 78.24617 W
      Population (1990): 1217 (558 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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